When comparing Yii vs Flight, the Slant community recommends Yii for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?”Yii is ranked 7th while Flight is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Yii is:

Since security is a crucial part of any application, Yii comes with great security features out of the box to help developers create a secure and reliable application. These security features contain but are not restricted to:
* Input validation
* Output filtering
* Features against SQL injection
* Cross-site scripting prevention

Pros

Pro

Comes with important security standarts

Since security is a crucial part of any application, Yii comes with great security features out of the box to help developers create a secure and reliable application. These security features contain but are not restricted to:

Pro

Integrated with a testing framework

Yii makes use of Codeception, a great PHP testing framework that helps developers run their tests. They can be unit, functional or acceptance tests since Codeception supports them all.

Pro

Lots of plugins available

Yii has about 2000 addons hosted on Yii's official website. These addons significantly decrease development time and increase the developer's efficiency.

Pro

License

Yii is free and open source and is distributed under the BSD License.

Pro

Strong community support

Yii has a strong and rather large community behind it. This is proven by the great number of blog posts, tutorials, guides and reviews on the Yii framework as well as the great number of extensions developed for it.

Pro

Easy to install

Yii uses Composer to handle it's dependency installation. This is rather easy and not very time consuming, although it should be noted that Composer is very resource-intensive considering what it's job is. But that is not really Yii's fault.

Pro

Best framework for CRUD operation

Yii Framework Provides most of features require for crud functionalities like GridView, Listview and DetailView (with jquery search and validation functions) by generating using GII.

Pro

Highly extensible without effort

Pro

Open source

Flight is open source and is released under the MIT license.

Pro

Filters

A unique feature of Flight is something that the author calls filters. Filters are functions which can be executed before and after any other function and can change the parameters and the output of said function.

This feature is used instead of hooks which in other frameworks are used to execute code into different parts of the application's life-cycle.

Pro

Uses static methods

Since Flight uses static methods, it does not require for the application class to be instantiated.

Cons

Con

Can be hard for beginners

Since Yii requires developers to write code following certain rules, or in other words, it requires developers to follow the "Yii way of doing things" it can be hard for beginners to warm up to it and start using it right away.

Con

Not very good at many to many relations

(but there is a good plugin, namely CAdvancedArBehavior extension to do this)

Con

Cannot use ArrayAccess

The fact that it uses static methods means that it's impossible for Flight to make use of ArrayAccess, which in turns means that it cannot inject dependencies easily.

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